Sean Dalton- Fact file

Background to the 'Good Samaritan' case | 16 March 2018

Sean Dalton died when an IRA booby trapped bomb exploded on 31st August 1988 in Kildrum Gardens in Creggan, Derry. Sheila Lewis was also killed instantly, and Gerard Curran died of his injuries 7 months later. They had gone to check on a neighbour who hadn’t been seen in a few days, and on entering...

MOD treating Kathleen Thompson family with 'contempt'

| 13 November 2018

The family of a Derry mother-of-six, shot dead in her own back garden, says Britain’s Ministry of Defence is treating them – and an inquest into her death - with complete contempt. Even the Coroner hearing the case has expressed deep disappointment at the MoD’s failure to confirm the identities of s...

The ‘British Patriot’, the UDA Gouger and MI5

Meeting of the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, Thursday 3 November 2016, Webcast Recording.

House of the Oireachtas | 06 November 2016

This week the Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement heard disturbing evidence from three witnesses about the situation inside Maghaberry Prison. Conal Mc Feeley, Peter Bunting and John Finucane gave evidence.

Maghaberry Prison staff 'watched' as inmate blinded himself

Third prisoner death at Maghaberry jail in the past month

Suzanne McGonagle, The Irish News | 30 November 2016

A PRISONER has been found dead in Maghaberry jail, the third death in the Co Antrim prison in the past month. It is understood the 34-year-old prisoner was found in his cell at the high security facility.

Mr Justice Treacy, sitting today in the High Court in Belfast, allowed a judicial review challenging the Prison Service policy by which forced strip searches are recorded on a video camera and retained for a period of six years

Review of the Northern Ireland Prison Service-Feb 2011

Agreement Reached on Dispute at Roe House in Maghaberry Prison

PFC | 12 August 2010

Following a protest by Republican prisoners in Roe House, the Northern Ireland Prison Service (NIPS) and the prisoners agreed to engage in a facilitation process. A Joint Facilitation Group (Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Creggan Enterprises and Dialogue Advisory Group) met both parties on a number...

Her Majesty’s Prison (HMP) Maghaberry is situated near Lisburn in County Antrim. It opened in 1986. Following the closure of HMP Belfast in 1996 and HMP Maze in 2000, Maghaberry was required to absorb and accommodate a number of different prisoner groups including remand prisoners and those paramili...

A License To Murder

BBC Panorama | 19 June 2002

Britain stands accused of helping known terrorists to assassinate suspected enemies of the state during the 1980s. A major, two-part Panorama investigation reveals the extent to which some members of the British intelligence services colluded with - and even tried to direct - loyalist death squads i...